4-18-2016-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY-
A former school officer in Knox County, Tennessee has filed a $250,000 lawsuit against the district and the city, charging that he was wrongfully terminated because his supervisor took offense to his marriage to a Black woman, writes USA Today.
The lawsuit claims that John Smelser, who is White, was fired in May 2015 from a school in Knoxville after Gus Paidousis, chief of school security, learned that Smelser was married to a Black woman with whom he has two children, the report says.
From USA Today:
The lawsuit seeks $250,000 in compensatory damages and a “mandatory order requiring defendants to abide by the laws that prohibit race discrimination and ordering the appropriate employees involved in the acts of race discrimination to receive appropriate training.”
SOURCE: USA Today | PHOTO CREDIT: Thinkstock
By NewsOne Staff 
